El Salvador Votes for New President, Anti-Corruption Outsider Favored

El Salvador Votes for New President, Anti-Corruption Outsider Favored
A police officer casts his vote at a polling station during the presidential election in San Salvador, El Salvador Feb. 3, 2019. Reuters/Victor Pena
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SAN SALVADOR—Salvadorans headed to the polls in the first round of a presidential election on Feb. 3, with an energetic former mayor campaigning as an anti-corruption outsider predicted to win the top job and end decades of a two-party system.

Nayib Bukele, 37, has capitalized on the anti-establishment feeling sweeping elections across the region and further afield, as voters seek an alternative to traditional parties.